Voluntary Participation. Participation in the Plan is voluntary. The value of the Option is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of the Optionee’s employment contract, if any. As such, the Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.
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Samples: Non Qualified Stock Option Agreement (Comerica Inc /New/), Non Qualified Stock Option Agreement (Comerica Inc /New/), Non Qualified Stock Option Agreement (Comerica Inc /New/)
Voluntary Participation. Participation The Participant’s participation in the Plan is voluntary. The value of the Option is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of the OptioneeParticipant’s employment contract, if any. As such, the Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension pensions or retirement benefits or similar paymentspayments unless specifically and otherwise provided.
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Samples: Option Agreement (Lixiang Education Holding Co . LTD), Option Agreement (SAMOYED HOLDING LTD), Option Agreement (SAMOYED HOLDING LTD)
Voluntary Participation. Participation in the Plan is voluntary. The value of the an Option is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of the Optionee’s any employment contract, if any. As such, the an Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.. The future value of the underlying Stock is unknown and cannot be predicted with certainty;
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Samples: Outside Director Stock Option Agreement (Invitrogen Corp), Nonstatutory Stock Option Agreement (Invitrogen Corp), Incentive Stock Option Agreement (Invitrogen Corp)
Voluntary Participation. Participation The Optionee’s participation in the Plan is voluntary. The value of the Option is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of the Optionee’s employment contract, if any. As such, the Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension pensions or retirement benefits or similar paymentspayments unless specifically and otherwise provided. Rather, the awarding of the Option under the Plan represents a mere investment opportunity.
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Samples: Stock Option Agreement (Tudou Holdings LTD), Option Exchange Agreement (Tudou Holdings LTD)
Voluntary Participation. Participation Participant’s participation in the 2020 Plan is voluntary. The value of the Option is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of the Optionee’s employment contract, if anycompensation. As such, the Option is not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, change in control payments, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits or similar payments.
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Samples: Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement (GeoVax Labs, Inc.)